From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3480cd8663df7eb8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-02 06:51:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.shlink.de!news2.telebyte.nl!teleglobe.net!teleglobe.net!62.81.31.29.MISMATCH!cyclone.auna.com!twister.auna.com!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Jano Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Free cryptographic library for Ada? Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.50 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:51:06 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.97.170.147 X-Trace: twister.auna.com 1075733472 212.97.170.147 (Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:51:12 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:51:12 MET Organization: AUNA TLC Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5180 Date: 2004-02-02T15:51:06+01:00 List-Id: Peter C. Chapin dice... > In article , nono@unizar.es > says... > > > It's quite old but I've been using its SHA1 and Tiger implementation > > without any problem. It has other digital signatures as well: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/adacf/ > > Yes, I found ACF as well. It does have hash functions, but digital > signatures also require public key cryptography (or its moral > equivalent). Unless I'm missing something significant, it doesn't look > to me like ACF supports such things. Ah, my bad, I had interpreted digital signatures as digital fingerprints. No, I don't think that ACF have anything else that hashing calculations. > Is ACF dead, BTW? It looks like it has the potential of being a nice > project. Should it prove necessary for me to implement digital > signatures myself I might be interested in contributing the result to > the open source community and ACF seems like one option for that. I > wrote to the administrator of the project, but so far I have not gotten > a reply. I wrote him some months ago. He took some time to answer (a couple of weeks?) but he is out there, somewhere, at least.